I wanted to share SEOMoz’s Whiteboard Friday last week, because it’s right on the money on a variety of user experience (UX) myths that a lot of web masters still blindly follow at their peril. At CNP, we never sacrifice UX for the benefit of SEO and, as time goes on, we’re finding that this conflict comes up less and less as search engines evolve.

The best way to address both concerns on your website is to never blindly follow a set of “rules,” because by the time you learn a set of rules to follow, most of them are defunct, debunked and can actually hurt your domain over time. Instead, look at the data, do some tests and use common sense.